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In the 20 years I have been servicing floors I find the tile floor the most challenging, easiest to ruin, and the most beautiful when clean correctly.
With the ever rising cost of labor, strip and wax tiles are becoming fewer and farther between. Since the mid-nineties, and lead by the fast food industry, grouted floor have become more cost effect over time when the cost of waxing, stripping, and buffing were figured into waxable tile.

TIPS:

Always have sealer included in your grout cleaning quote

Change mop heads frequently

Grout cannot be cleaned by mopping alone

Many cleaners can strip your sealer without you realizing it

Lack of sealer on grout can permanently stain your tile

Unsealed grout is more likely to hold germs than sealed grout

However, grouted tile cannot go forever without proper cleaning by trained staff. Once the sealer from installation has been removed, that is added to protect the pristine while grout between tiles, the floor dirt and grime turns the grout black and can possibly stain it beyond repair.

Most companies do not ever realize the grout is sealed and unknowingly used ammonia and Clorox based cleaners to clean the tile and it actually removes the sealer…the sealer containing the dirt and buildup, leaving a beautiful grout.

However, and more times than not, they do not replace the sealer, usually, as I said, because they didn’t know it was there. Sealer is clear and is not a shiny finish like wax.

Once the customer has accidentally removed the sealer the real damage sets in, there is nothing to protect the white grout and a restoration cleaning must be done, usually about 95 percent effective, if the floor has not been let go too long.

One more common misconception, you can keep grouted tile clean with proper mopping.
Just not true.

Once a mop is wiped properly across the floor, it picks up dirt and sediment, and leaves a thin layer of water of the floor, and the majority of it settling into the lowest point, the grout between the tiles.

After that first swipe across the floor, the water becomes dingy, that discoloration is particles in the mop water now, and unless you are going to change you mop water after each and every swipe, the next swipe now contains a lot of those microscopic particles and is applied to the floor with regular mopping and in that thin layer of what appears to be perfectly clean water on the floor, actually has thousands of particles and all looking to settle in porous grout, once the water evaporates.

So, you cannot, no matter how much you mop, clean your grout by mopping